custom camshafts
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From: Loveland, OH, US
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It's a helluvalot cheaper to get one custom cam than cam grinding equipment, you can believe that.
Cam grinding eqpt (or a custom cam, for that matter) is only as worthwhile as the knowledge of the person designing the cam. A Borneo orangutan can probably pick you a custom cam grind; but will it run any better than an off-the-shelf cam? Maybe, maybe not. Just because a cam is "custom" is no guarantee it will work any better than any other cam.
The good, modern off-the-shelf grinds from the major mfrs like Comp, Lunati, Crower, Isky, Crane, etc. are tailored carefully to meet the requirements of the HUGE MAJORITY of the buying public. This is as opposed to Edelbrock, Summit, Elgin, Melling, and other mass-producers, who sell time-tested but not state-of-the-art generic grinds with zero R&D. More than likely, unless you are doing something truly unique, or you're racing in a class where the competition is so tight that you need an extra 2 HP to win all the races (not likely judging by the quetion... in that case you'd probably already be on a first-name basis with every cam grinder in the country), you will do fine with a correctly picked out-of-the-box cam. By "unique", I don't mean trying to go 11s in a car with 8½:1 compression, stock 76cc heads, a stock torque converter, 3.08 gears, and a Torker 2 intake; or a bone-stock 305 TBI car with a MSD ignition stuck off on it; or some totally mismatched combo that you're trying to patch together somehow with an oddball cam, to "compensate" for a bad component choice elsewhere in the engine.
That having been said, check www.bulletcams.com talk to Bob; also www.lazercams.com and www.cammotion.com
Cam grinding eqpt (or a custom cam, for that matter) is only as worthwhile as the knowledge of the person designing the cam. A Borneo orangutan can probably pick you a custom cam grind; but will it run any better than an off-the-shelf cam? Maybe, maybe not. Just because a cam is "custom" is no guarantee it will work any better than any other cam.
The good, modern off-the-shelf grinds from the major mfrs like Comp, Lunati, Crower, Isky, Crane, etc. are tailored carefully to meet the requirements of the HUGE MAJORITY of the buying public. This is as opposed to Edelbrock, Summit, Elgin, Melling, and other mass-producers, who sell time-tested but not state-of-the-art generic grinds with zero R&D. More than likely, unless you are doing something truly unique, or you're racing in a class where the competition is so tight that you need an extra 2 HP to win all the races (not likely judging by the quetion... in that case you'd probably already be on a first-name basis with every cam grinder in the country), you will do fine with a correctly picked out-of-the-box cam. By "unique", I don't mean trying to go 11s in a car with 8½:1 compression, stock 76cc heads, a stock torque converter, 3.08 gears, and a Torker 2 intake; or a bone-stock 305 TBI car with a MSD ignition stuck off on it; or some totally mismatched combo that you're trying to patch together somehow with an oddball cam, to "compensate" for a bad component choice elsewhere in the engine.
That having been said, check www.bulletcams.com talk to Bob; also www.lazercams.com and www.cammotion.com
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